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Kick Out the James!

Jan 20, 2023 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

ZBC Rock

With James

In these confused times isn't it nice to find some relief? Every week, James will try to bring some sense into this crazy world via the radio waves. Look back. Look forward. Seek the truth. Never dull. Always irreverent. Fight the good fight by just sitting back and listening.

Back to Regular KOTJ w/a Mark E. Smith Tribute

First hour today, new stuff and things. Classic KOTJ will be a tribute to Mark E. Smith of The Fall's passing Jan. 24, 2018.

9:00 AM		Bernard Gerard Méchoui La Grande Sauterelle Barclay 1967 MP3
9:04 AM		Black Button No One to Blame Rejoice Black Button 2023 Other Rock
9:06 AM		Kudzu Stolen Focus S/T Bandcamp 2023 Punk
9:09 AM		Dhead Shaker Get High Without Your Panties Black Sheep Bandcamp 2022 Other
9:12 AM		The Circulators On the Loose S/T Bandcamp 2023 Other
9:14 AM		Scab Breath In My Stride Power Shift Bandcamp 2023 Other
9:16 AM		Strangely Addictive Money - All day every day Animal Bandcamp 2023 Other
9:20 AM		Matty Grace Voice Inside My Head Start. Stop. Repeat. BandcampHigh Trash Media Tarantula Tapes 2023 Other
9:21 AM		Bad Affair Out of Time We Are Doomed Bandcamp 2023 Other
9:22 AM		Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops Nothing Manic Fever High Dive Records 2023 Other
9:24 AM		Chimers Tooth Generator / Tooth Bandcamp 2023 Other
9:27 AM		Alpaca Brothers Green Guitar Figment Zelle Records 2023 Other
9:29 AM		Richar Mustang Pas de chance - Single Bandcamp 2022 Other Rock
9:34 AM		Gérard Bernard Mechoui La Grande Sauterelle Barclay 1967
9:42 AM		Valley Delinquent You Deserve the Best Vd6 Bandcamp 2022 Other Rock
9:44 AM		Straight Arrows Fast Product Fast Product Rice Is Nice 2023 Rock
9:46 AM		Tee Vee Repairmann Bus Stop What's on TV Total Punk 2023
9:49 AM		Saucermen Sick Saucermen EP Laptop Punk Records 2023 Other
9:50 AM		Bzdet Inflacja Daleko OD OK Syf Records 2023 Other
9:52 AM		Ten Benson I Don't Buy It Hiss Bandcamp 2023 Other Rock
9:56 AM		Score Sock Cope Cruel Nature Records 2023 Other
9:59 AM		cool sorcery DETONATION The Definitive Step-by-step Dance Guide for Warlord Necromancers and Enthusiasts cool sorcery 2022
10:03 AM		Zhoop RIP Split by Dadgad, Zhoop Goodbye Boozy Records 2023 Other
10:04 AM		Seggs Tape Moko Demos Webo Records 2022
10:06 AM		Zoids The Thing Fuck Vinyl Bandcamp 2023 Other
10:08 AM		Dadgad IDC Split by Dadgad, Zhoop Goodbye Boozy 2023 Other
10:09 AM		Bad Duck 3! 3nfermos! Independent 2022 Punk
10:11 AM		Shareholder Bullets 32 Items From Lockdown Bandcamp 2023 Other
10:14 AM		Golf Keep Clear Golf 3a Bandcamp 2023 Other
10:16 AM		Gérard Bernard Mechoui La Grande Sauterelle Barclay 1967
10:30 AM		The Fall Various Times It's The New Thing! / Various Times Step-Forward Records 1978 Rock
10:37 AM		The Fall Garden The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 Castle 2005 Rock
10:47 AM		The Fall Pat - Trip Dispenser C.R.E.E.P. (Single) Beggars Banquet 1984
10:51 AM		The Fall Rebellious Jukebox Live at the Witch Trials Step-Forward Records 1979 Rock
10:54 AM		Dead Finks Frightened (The Fall cover) The Death and Resurrection of Johnathan Cowboy urge records 2021
11:00 AM		The Fall Who Makes The Nazis? Hex Enduction Hour Kamera Records 1982 Rock
11:04 AM		The Fall New Face In Hell Grotesque (After The Gramme) Rough Trade 1980 Rock
11:10 AM		The Fall The Man Whose Head Expanded In: Palace Of Swords Reversed Cog Sinister 1987 Indie Rock
11:15 AM		The Fall Extricate Extricate Cog Sinister 1990
11:19 AM		The Woolen Men Psycho Mafia (The Fall cover) Lucky Box See My Friends Records 2017 Punk
11:25 AM		The Fall Flat of Angles Dragnet Step-Forward Records 1979 Indie Rock
11:30 AM		The Fall A Figure Walks Dragnet Step-Forward Records 1979 Indie Rock
11:36 AM		The Fall What You Need This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985
11:40 AM		The Fall Fit and Working Again In: Palace Of Swords Reversed WMG - Cherry Red Records 1987 Indie Rock
11:43 AM		The Fall Eat Y'Self Fitter Perverted By Language Line Records 1983 Rock
11:50 AM		The Fall Gut Of The Quantifier The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 Castle Records 2005
11:55 AM		The Cool Greenhouse I'm Into CB RIP Smithy - Single Self-Release 2018 MP3 Rock
11:59 AM		Gérard Bernard Mechoui La Grande Sauterelle Barclay 1967

Chat is archived.

Welcome good folks of the KOTJ ZBC world. It was the best of times and the best of the best of times. Now these times. Various times.

Good morning

Good morning. Various Times indeed.

Good morning all

Greetings Roger, Thee HG and Sir Sag'naw.

Like Murray Saul used to say... it's FRIIIIDAAAY!

Howdy DJS!

Good morning!

Fred. Welcome!

Money

Makes the world go 'round

Morning James , morning good people .

Dash in the snow.

liking the rock whilst doing my teams 2002 performance reviews!

Hello. PeterC. 21 years past! Good memory!

lol. 20222

2022

Good morning James and Kickers!

https://searchingformeaning.org/watch-the-series/

Morning James and all other kicker lovers.

'morning!

mornin' kotj-ers!

HiPi, Jamie and b4

PeterC, I couldn’t tell if you were being extremely late or more extremely proactive

Like justice, the wheels of review moves slow.

I love this Ten Benson album!!

I missed the name of the band from San Antonio tx..what was the namez?

Yes on Ten Benson!

Sex Mex is the San Antone band

Interview w/on next week's KOTJ show

Awessome...is your interview archived? 😀

Ahh..awesome will listen tonit

Happy NATIONAL DJ DAY !!! https://nationaltoday.com/national-dj-day/

After the show, yes. www.artguy.com/kotj and www.mixcloud.com/kotjames

I yet to have an archive of shows in the future so tonight will be a disappointment. Sex Mex airs next week.

@JeffB - Does Hallmark have cards for National DJ Day?

this sounds like an instrumental version of 'Wild in the streets', the Garland Jeffries song.

YES Pi!!

Here's the gift for the DJ in your life...my girlfriend bought me a copy of the latest one...it's pretty cool. https://record-magazine.com/

Just read some really sad news https://pitchfork.com/news/van-conner-screaming-trees-bassist-and-co-founder-dies-at-55/

that band had a HUGE influence on my band The Feldmans when were starting out in 1990

Maybe he'll jam with David Crosby at the gates

maybe

Je suis ici

you can set your watch (dated reference?) to contemporary radio DJbots playlists

rebellion jukebox, please

Garden!

See what flows from his mushy pen!

There ya go! Requests coming up! Oh and covers of The Fall too.

"jew on a motorbike!"

Pat the Trip Dispenser

Added Dee A!

If you are a NMH fan this is some cool news https://pitchfork.com/news/neutral-milk-hotel-announce-career-spanning-vinyl-box-set-share-previously-unreleased-song-listen/#intcid=_pitchfork-bottom-recirc_ebb78045-1c22-4466-8585-0e8714037ec7_text2vec1

reminds me of I owe it to the girls for some reason

Yeah! Turning it up! Thanks James!

Hope don't mind the extended Peel Sessions version

notatall!

"paranoia man..."

I got to hang out with MES a couple of times in the pre-Brix era and despite his reputation I always thought he was pretty nice...although admittedly we were pretty drunk...On one occasion a few of them stayed at the Gilroy/Herilhy place on Comm Ave...

prob too long for regular weekly Fall tribute, so…

why not, I say

@PC beyond envious that I was not able to be part of that. I remember we spoke about aired(?) back when Mark E. passed. To think how ZBC was and now is....

He bought Bradley Jay some socks? at Filene's basement back in the early 80's when they had hung out

I remember passing him on Mass Ave as he and his mates were walking up from the Middle East before a show. I was too stunned to say anything. Been kicking (the james out of) myself ever since.

I missed the beginning of Fall announce... are you saying no more Fall specials?

Now it’s hard to believe they ever played at the ME

I'm an idiot to have never seen them in the day but got to see one of his more famous US concert moments at Coney Island High w/Stefan.

So MES was kind of like Steve Jobs, not very nice but a genius?

what was that moment, James?

never catching them live remains a musical regret

saw them at the Paradise.

I think it was a Paradise show where Mark kept his wireless mic in a shoulder holster when he wasn’t singing.

Is this blasphemy? I have critical taste when it comes to Fall covers.

it’s credible!

Mark had a hotel row with bandmates in hotel previous night which wound him up with a black eye form a telephone receiver and in jail for a night. Band came on and was jamming. No Mark E. Eventually he showed...supposedly directly from jail w/said shiner. He was shoving and goading bandmates.

classic

One if not the last show he ever played with original band members

I remember a Boston show (I forget the club) when Cat Power opened, playing solo acoustic. I think it was before she was well known. Understatement to say she did not hold the room. I felt sorry for her.

tuning in for the last hour today while at work

That’s dedication Pete .

Republicans make the Nazis

when you were talking about the guy getting hit with the telephone receiver--about 1/2 or more of the ZBC audience probably wonders what that is

@raoulvanhorn - saw Cat Power at the Somerville Theater - might be the quietest show I've ever seen, was like everyone was holding their breath. Theatre ventilation was drowning out the show.

I was the typical starving musician back then so if I couldn't score free tix or get on a guest list it was a challenge to make it to shows sometimes depending on my employment/rent situation

would you consider playing The Man Who's Head Expanded"?

This is the Coney Island show....can't remember if it was the night before or not: https://youtu.be/y4ndBDCpMlM

First World problems, right?

I would say most of the audience here/hear knows what a phone receiver as few young folks would find approachable...IMO

JeffB -

Do enjoy tales from fellow Kickers of shows , run-in’s and the like about meeting musical heroes .

thx @james. This was my gateway song to the band

GREAT TUNE

that bass line gets you going every time

It's truly a greatest "hits" best of The Fall show.

JeffB — now i agine if everyone in the audience was actually there to see The Fall

*imagine

This was the first song I ever heard by the Fall. 1983 maybe? Bummed that I did not dig deeper at the time.

The ID where somebody got hit while talking - that was Peter Choyce, wasn't it?

Oh, just read 1987!

I guess I am a Fall guy after all...great stuff...

@JYBN, you're first thought is more correct.

Yes. It was also completely fake. It's actually a bottle while on the phone in SF at Pine and Grant. I went to that phone and put a ZBC sticker on it. When there were pay/public phones. Now all phones are public

Better than The Beatles or Zepplin.

I discovered The Fall sometime around 1979 when a friend said our band sounded like them. (It didn’t, but I was hooked.)

This album was the first Fall I ever heard. Senior year at Framingham State my bandmate handed me a copy and said "you got to hear these guys"

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

For me it was also 1979. I heard Totally Wired and life changed..then I heard Who Makes Nazi and I was full-in and then New Face in Hell and eternally hoooked.

Like the sample quote...I couldn't understand how others couldn't grasp the ultra-layered genius.

I think another fine cover.

I don't think I knew of the Fall until much later... maybe by the mid 80s

btw-Woolen Men are great. Was just listening to the lyrics of Mexico City.

just noticed spinitron says “Exploded” about the man whose head. Apple music says the same, but my CD says “Expanded”

whassup with that?

Oh Yea....that was an auto-fill. I didn't notice. I fixed it. Maybe a data entry typo at the source?

Autofill is from ACR Cloud. Data entry of song info comes from band, band management, or record label. Many typos.

Head expansions lead to head explosions

Sometimes label hires staff who lack attention to detail...

loving this set in my fancy new headphones

Sweet

So many intrinsically great tracks. Fish in a barrell

Every time someone plays Non-Alignment Pact, ACR Cloud attributes it to "Pere Abu" on the ZBC playlist.

like, Fit and Working Again

my loyalties are definitely in the early output

on a roll

anyone else just lose the stream

@ Ex L T....I think bot confuses that version with the United Arab Emirates Ubu cover band cover band

no thankfully no interruption here

stream is good here

On the Pere Abu error, song is attributed to a punk rock compilation and not the original album. It might be that whoever was the last to register the audio fingerprint gets their album listed as the originator.

I agree with the early output comment but as time passes...some of the later work is pretty great and beyond most crap that was of it's time.

@KOTJ you should be the one who compiles the Fall's "Greatest Hits" box set that'll be release before Christmastime

I was just looking at the ACRCloud website. Didn’t know about them. They say “Shazam-like” and “Soundcloud-like” but apparently those apps don’t use their same tech?

I was just thinking I could curate/compile a a solid collection JB

its back for me. weird . nothing else went down but that for me

I really liked Infotainment Scan, but it got slagged a lot

A fine solid record!

got any fave cuts from that one, James?

time is tight and I have some lined up already. Next show.

ok. I figured it was late for another request

yes! yes! - don't wanna be a victim!

Service is good. Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room...

@raoulvanhorn - Infotainment a fave of mine too

"50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong"

what is Mark spelling there?

it was never clear to me

Good morning,James and fellow Kickers,glad to be listening to this Mark E.Smith tribute.

FYI: This show will be locked on mixcloud but for those devoted to the MC I will post the direct link to the artguy.com/kotj file

Barry. Always good.

HAHAHAH - it's not "victim" it's "mit dem" as in the German, "with them"

http://annotatedfall.doomby.com/pages/the-annotated-lyrics/eat-y-self-fitter.html

yeah, that's how I found out. LOL

G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O

I've recently taken up learning bass and this set is getting me juiced to jam on some Fall tunes later today

I thought in head expanded he was singing...Sounds a bit like hitler...

especially this tune

A top fave of all time tunes! Gut of

An "All Fall" would be something

We will end with a smashing cover tribute with one of my all time faves, as well.

One more comment about music fingerprinting: "Producers" who sample music often get credit from ACRCloud when ZBC actually played the original song and not the EDM version. I frequently correct these errors on the bot's playlist. It's not as bad as it used to be-- I wonder whether ACRCloud responds to compliants from bands or labels.

Like if someone contacted them about the expanded/exposed error

As Jeff and I mention. I despise the play being attributed to the distributor over the original release and make sure to get that int here.

Yes!

Musician might be losing some (miniscule) royalty $$ as well, thanks to these errors where the EDM producer gets credited.

Cedar Plank

the CB was my first cellphone

@exDJT before computers scheduled music, commercial DJ's once a year had to fill out a log noting the writer of every song we played for BMI/ASCAP royalties.. I wonder if Spinitron fulfills that function today?

Stellar, James. Thanks!

Thanks again for an enjoyable and memorable three hours of time on earth together James

Merci beaucoup a tous

Copy good buddies. You're the best of the best

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